Collar construction



Sept. 15, 1959 T. D. AlNsLlE v 2,903,702

COLLAR CONSTRUCTION Filed May 5, 1956 ,m INVENTOR.

To/1,45 olu IQIHSLIE United States Patent lips-Van Heusen Corporation, New York, NiY., a corporation of New York Application May 3, 19st,', serial' No. 532,523 1 claim. (Cia-132) This invention relates to collars, and more particularly to those of the type which are permanently or detachably secured to mens shirts. It is one of the objects of the invention to provide a collar construction in which wrinkling of the body of the collar. and rolling o'rturning up of the tips or extremities of the collar will be materially retarded. l

It is an object of the invention to provide means at the rear of the collar bodyl by which predetermined stress or tension can be applied to thereby cause the collar body, in the area of the extremities or points to tend to assume a convex form and act resistently to outward curling when the collar is worn.

It is another object of the invention to provide means, in the form of a patch or fabric section, yat the rear of the collar at the front portion, which can be of greater shrinkage tendencies than the body of the collar, whereby the greater shrinkage of the patch will apply tension to the body of the collar transversely of the collar and cause the same to resist any outward curling tendency.

It is still another object of the invention to provide a patch or fabric section at the front of the collar at the rear thereof, which fabric section can if desired, be utilized as a pocket for the reception of a permanent or removable stay, and which fabric section can be tensioned when the collar is sewed to the shirt, and caused to operate to apply pull on the body of the collar in a manner to resist outward curling of the same.

With these and other objects to be hereinafter set forth in view, I have devised the arrangement of parts to be described and more particularly pointed out in the claim appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing, wherein an illustrative embodiment of the invention is disclosed,

Fig. l is a face view, looking at the rear face, of a portion of a collar in which the present invention is embodied;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view, taken substantially on the line 2 2 of Fig. 3, looking in the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 3 is a view of the outer face of the collar before the same is reversed and edge-stitched;

Fig. 4 is a face view of the reinforcing patch;

Fig. 5 is a face view, looking at the outer face of the finished collar;

Fig. 6 is a sectional View, taken substantially on the line 6 6 of Fig. 4, looking in the direction of the arrows, and

Fig. 7 is a sectional view, taken substantially on the line 7 7 of Fig. l, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Referring to the drawing, 1 indicates a collar blank or body, which may be of any of the conventional collar shapes known in the trade, and both ends of the collar are shaped and constructed substantially as shown in Fig. l.

The body of the collar may be of any relatively heavy material, such as duck, or may be composed of a multiply material of considerable thickness and weight, and such as is presently widely used in collar manufacture.

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The upper edge of the collar, or that which is to be se@ cured in the collar bandl of la shirt, is that indicated at 2; the lower edge being indicated at 3, and the forward edge ati-8. In the manufacture of these collars, -a binding strip 4 is secured to the lower edge 3 by means of a line of stitching vshown at 5, and `at the same time, a reinforcement patch 7, which may be of the shape substantially Ias shown in Fig. 4, is secured over the outer face of the collar blank byvhaving its lower marginal edge 10 engaged by the line of stitching 5 and havin-g its forward edge 6 engaged by the line of stitching 9, thus securing said edge to and extending co-extensively with, the forward edge 8 of the collar. It will be observed that the reinforcing patch 7 will be thus secured to the collar blank solely along the edges 6 and lll of the patch, although under some circumstances, the -upper edge 17 of the patch might be -secured to the collar body by the line of stitching 18, and particularly when tensioning of the patch in a manner to be described is not necessary. Invtheform shown, the free edge 19 of the patch is substantially parallel to the forward edge 8 of the collar, but this is not an essential feature of the present invention. 'n

SecuredA angularly across la face of the patch 7 is a fabric ,strip or tape 11, said tape being attached to the patch by the gparallel linesof stitching 12 and 13, thus producing `van elongated pocket 14, which may or may not be used for the reception of a stay or stilfener 15, shown in Figs. l, 2, 3 and 7, but omitted from Figs. 4 and 6. If a stay is employed, it can be permanently retained in the pocket 14 or it might be made removable and replaceable by means of a slot not shown, but provided in the pocket ladjacent to the cross stitching shown at 16.

In Fig. 3, the reinforcement patch is shown as being applied over the outside face of the collar body, and the patch is thereafter reversed 1 a manner to bring it to the back face of the collar body, substantially as shown in Fig. 1. In this position, the patch will be disposed on the rear face of the collar, and the pocketforming strip 11 will thereupon be located between the patch and the inside face of the collar body. The lower edge of the collar is also inturned in a manner to bring the binding y4 thereon behind the rear face of the collar so as to be concealed from frontal view of the collar. In such inturned position, a line of stitching 21 is extended through the collar body and through the inturned portions thereof to thus maintain the inturning and hold the binding in its concealed position. When the blank is treated in the manner described, the stitching 5 and 9 will become concealed and the line of stitching 21, as well as the line of stitching 20 extended through the forward edge of the collar and through the edge portion 6 of the reinforcement patch, will be the only lines of stitching visible along the edges of the collar from front view, Vas will be apparent from Fig. 5. If the stitches 18 are used, the same subsequently become positioned in the neckband and concealed from view.

From the foregoing, it will be apparent that there is provided in the collar in the forward portions thereof, reinforcing pieces which can be attached to the collar body by two edges. When the collar is attached to a neck band, the operator can apply tension to the rein* forcement piece 7 independently of the body of the colar and the reinforcement will then remain in place under stress and thrus will tend to curve the collar inwardly or convexly in a manner to cause the collar to strongly resist a normal tendency to curl upwardly and outwardly when the collar is worn. It is falso possible to make the reinforcement pieces of a material haiving a greater shrinkage capaci-ty than the material of which the body of the collar is made, so that laundering will 3 cause the reinforcing patch to shrink to a greater degree than the collar body, thus keeping the points of the collar from curling upwardly.

A stay or stiiener can be arranged in the pocket 14, and this pocket can, if desired, be positioned at va different angularity from that shown, so that the stay can be positioned parallel to the forward edge of the collar or at any other desired angle thereto. It is to be noted that if a stay is used as described, it will be solely supported and carried by the reinforcement patch as distinguished from being carried by the body proper of the collar, the latter arrangement being that commonly employed in the industry.

The arrangement herein disclosed is such that by the means described, the collar is reinforced and is prevented from curling by means arranged at the rear of the collar and invisible from the front, as will be apparent from Fig. 5.

Having described a single embodiment of the invention, it is obvious that the same is not to be restricted thereto, but is broad enough to cover all structures coming within the scope of the annexed claim.

What I claim is:

A collar construction comprising a single ply fabric collar body, a binding strip secured by a rst line of stitching to the lower edge of the collar body, the edge of the collar body being inturned to conceal the binding strip, a fabric patch being formed of a fabric possessing increased shrinking characteristics as compared to the collar body, said patch having an inturned lower edge secured to the inside face of the collar body by `said binding strip stitching that extends through the lower edge of the collar body and through the lower edge of the patch, and a second line of stitching extending along the forward and lower edge of the collar body securing the patch to the lower edge of the collar body, the patch encompassing only the forward end of the collar body and the tip area thereof, the patch having an upper edge stitched along the upper edge of the body while the patch is initially tensioned transversely of the collar body to thereby cause the patch to be maintained under tension and to cause it to attempt to convexly curve the body in its tip area and to resist the tendency of the body to outwardly and upwardly curve in said tip area While being worn, and a stay pocket secured to the inner side of the patch and positioned between the patch and the inside face of the collar body.

References Cited in the 'le of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,534,562 Barker Apr. 21, 1925 1,744,778 Mackie Jan. 28, 1930 1,756,752 Jacoby Apr. 29, 1930 2,183,242 Liebowitz Dec. 12, 1939 2,186,356 Bihaly Ian. 9, 1940 FOREIGN PATENTS 22,631 Australia May 15, 1935 465,976 Great Britain May 20, 1937 64,577 Norway June 1, 1942 

